• Opinion
  • 09 Oct 19

Voices for Mental Health: Luke Pritchard of The Kooks

Voices for Mental Health: Luke Pritchard of The Kooks
The Kooks at Electric Picnic 2018. Copyright Miguel Ruiz
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We invited a chorus of artists, writers, musicians, broadcasters, sports stars, and more to contribute to Now We’re Talking, a mental health campaign, run in partnership with Lyons Tea and Pieta House.

We were enjoying ourselves a bit too much. It all came from nerves. When our first album was made, we were all quite shy people. None of us was getting the girls or anything and then we were thrown into this situation and ended up drinking through it.

If everything had been positive all of the time after that, I genuinely think I would have lost my mind.

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